The Sándor Ferenczi Center

The La-La Showdown: A Lacan-Laplanche Debate

 

The La-La Showdown: A Lacan-Laplanche Debate at The Ferenczi Center Saturday, November 12th 63 Fifth Avenue, University Center UL 104 The New School Jacques Lacan and Jean Laplanche differed over the formative role of language in unconscious mental representation. These differences, outlined in work over many years, will be revisited in a contemporary debate on their meaning, history, and clinical significance. Does language establish the conditions for the unconscious or does the unconscious establish the conditions for language? Current interest in these two psychoanalytic thinkers suggests that much remains to be uncovered in these questions. 9 am – 10:15 am  “Reading Laplanche With and Against Freud” – Todd Dean (Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association), Jens De Vleminck (Ghent), Jasper Faeyerts (Ghent) Chair – Jeremy Safran (The New School) Respondent – Jonathan House (Columbia Psychoanalytic) 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Debate Overview: David Lichtenstein (Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association) Moderators: Adrienne Harris (NYU Post-Doc)/Jeremy Safran (The New School) Team Lacan: Marcus Coelen (LMU Munich), Steven Miller (Buffalo), Cecilia Sjöholm (Södetörn Univeristy), Jamieson Webster (The New School) + Patricia Gherovici (Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association) Team Laplanche: Ilka Quindeau (Frankfurt University), Jakob Staberg (Södetörn Univeristy), Avgi Saketopoulo (NYU Post-Doc), Tim Dean (University of Illinois) + Adrienne Harris (NYU Post-doc) This event is part of the conference Any Body, Anybody: The Matter of the Unconscious Tout Corps, Corps de Personne : La Matière de l’inconscient  Ninth Annual Meeting of the Société Internationale de Psychanalyse et Philosophie/International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy at The New School Organized by Jamieson Webster and Elissa Marder Organizing Committee: Chiara Bottici, Patricia Gherovici, Adrienne Harris, David Lichtenstein, Beatriz Santos Sponsored by: